Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I know that sounds ineffective and daunting, but it [throw hundreds of pages away] is actually my favorite part of the writing process.
I love writing essays and articles, so it's hard for me to resist taking assignments that inevitably pull me away from larger projects.
She was afraid, but she couldn't just sit around waiting for someone to save her. She had to try to save herself, try to figure it out.
When we're surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that's possible is a powerful thing to do.
Three things trust and cherish well- The horse on which you ride, The beast that guards and watches, And your shield-mate at your side.
. . . from what he knew about the Creatures of the Dark they wouldn't waste their time laying elaborate traps. They'd just eat someone.
How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be a giant goose again.
As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.
I was a police reporter, so I got into the worlds that I write about, and I think many of the details in my books come from those days.
Blackness is not simply a reactionary title or identity; that is indeed the "negative" way of characterizing African American identity.
You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.
Listening is so basic that we take it for granted. Unfortunately, most of us think of ourselves as better listeners than we really are.
The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.
We love salt, fat and sugar. We're hard-wired to go for those flavors. They trip our dopamine networks, which are our craving networks.
Recipes are not assembly manuals. Recipes are guides and suggestions for a process that is infinitely nuanced. Recipes are sheet music.
Never in the history of chess have so many moves been repeated so often so quickly by so many people who didn't really understand them.
I would rather my enemy's sword pierce my heart then my friend's dagger stab me in the back." Faustus - Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire
I think it's my job to make any question interesting by coming up with a jazzy answer, otherwise I hardly deserve the spotlight, right?
When you learn to love your physical body, every activity can become a ritual of gratitude where you fully express the joy to be alive!
My manners have always been the first thing to go when I get upset, and some people say that they stopped coming back a long time ago.
Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.
I don't eat a ton of pasta or bread. But I eat dessert almost every night, and I drink. You need a bit of balance, and I've found mine.
I learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in books until much later.
You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well.
When you attack the enemy, your spirit must go to the extent of pulling the stakes out of a wall and using them as spears and halberds.
Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.
For there is no sex. There is but sex that is oppressed and sex that oppresses. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary.
The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology.
Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.
Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.
He didn't know what else to do, how to comfort her, so he simply held her, held the only person in the world who had ever cried for him
Take care of my heart won't you, Sophie? It's a little odd having it outside my body-but I'm planning to steal yours to make up for it.
Proud people keep others at arm's length. Broken people are willing to take the risks of getting close to others and loving intimately.
Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.
Normal people think we're highly dependent and can't live without ongoing support, but in fact there are times when we're stoic heroes.
Traditions are always puzzling to those who don't share them. I'm Jewish, so the idea of a 'perfect family Christmas' is foreign to me.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.
Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.
Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.
If you have been wise and successful I congratulate you. Unless you are unable to forget how successful you have been, then I pity you.
Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.
A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.
What sort of a brain-dead idiot does it take to actually believe that gun laws will prevent criminals from obtaining and carrying guns?
Be a bringer of the Light. For your light can do more than illuminate your own path, you can be the light which truly lights the world.
Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.
Everything changes when you make a decision to be one of the courageous ones, someone who chooses to make a life, rather than a living.